Poverty & Wealth Sometimes seemingly disparate events bring the same thing to mind. Is that the Universe trying to bring something to one’s attention or…

May 2021

Wordlessly Watching He Waits by the Window and Wonders I was in a meeting the other day with a friend who manages my school’s student literary…

January 2021

Home By Another Road. “Later they were warned in a dream not to return to Herod, and they went back home by another road.” Matthew 2:12 What does it…

May 2020

I miss the in-between. The Thursday bus driver who always arrives three minutes too early. The familiar faces of strangers all crammed into a box on…

April 2020

Phoenix Here in a few months, once we’re on the other side of the CoV-19 curve, I think resilience will be a buzzword. In some circles it already is. I…
In Place — Wrote this last week, but apparently didn’t send it out. — Social distancing is the new norm. In Seattle you find lines outside the grocery…

March 2020

Ineffable Last week one of my professors asked the question, "in the aftermath of trauma, why so much poetry?" Trauma defies language. It is the…
Shame & Desire Last week I made the claim that to solve our shame, we need to address desire. I don’t really want to write about that right now. Yes, I…

February 2020

You are stardust. And to stardust you will return. “If you can go 40 days without it, you probably don’t have a problem with it.” I heard a pastor say…
Raising narcissists In my Spirit & Trauma class I’m a part of a reading group that is focused on the influence of theology on parenting styles and the…
Selfless suffering as codependency: “Here, let you help me...” Last week I wrote in part about “selfish selflessness” and how it’s linked to our shame…
Pain, pleasure, suffering, selflessness What is the difference between resilience and masochism? Both concepts swim in the waters of suffering, but are…